Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] for long " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the war goes on for long , the anxieties will increase . |
| 2 | Some unilateral plant closures can be expected , Campbell predicted — if the crisis goes on for long or gets worse . |
| 3 | Lack of sleep , if the baby is demanding to be feed every two hours or so day and night , can be hell if it goes on for long . |
| 4 | Without the imperative of obedience , albeit lovingly enforced , the child may come to conclude that if he holds out for long enough , demanding his own will , he 'll get his own way in the end . |
| 5 | Obviously a writer who is happy with ‘ super-refined ’ ( elsewhere he says that Eliot 's ‘ Portrait of a Lady ’ is ‘ extraordinarily sensitized ’ ) is not a critic worth pausing on for long ; and yet when Untermeyer cites all too patent imitations of Eliot 's ‘ Sweeney Among the Nightingales ’ in quatrains by Osbert Sitwell and Herbert Read and Robert Nichols , one can see good reason for him to think that Eliot s reputation , achieved so fast on such a slender body of work , was no more than modish . |
| 6 | It 's been going on for long enough and I think something should be done about it , ’ he added . |
| 7 | This phenomenon has been going on for long enough in Shetland waters for it to be given a local name of ‘ fuglicaa ’ , which is derived from old Norse ‘ fugl ’ meaning bird and ‘ caa ’ to drive ( as in sheep ) — literally a ‘ bird-drive ’ . |
| 8 | But hang out for long enough , and something illegal was bound to be made available . |
| 9 | Kenny was always football mad and he could n't stay out for long . |
| 10 | " Do n't go running off for long . |
| 11 | I only looked , I did take quickly a look at them but , you know I thought oh I ai n't got I did n't really have time to mess about for long you know . |
| 12 | It 's too cold to sit around for long , so I get up and walk onto the bridge . |
| 13 | A project is a project , he wrote , and once it is begun it should be carried through to the end , regardless of doubts about meaning , doubts about long runs , or doubts about anything else , unless the body screams for you to stop , of course one can not go on for long against the screaming of the body , but then that merely means one has miscalculated , it merely means one has begun too soon or too late or perhaps that the entire project was a miscalculation . |
| 14 | After the Ebro , Catalonia could not be expected to hold on for long , and if Catalonia fell the rest of Republican Spain was likely to follow . |
| 15 | The pro-English party must have realised , however , that neither they nor their masters in London were in a position to hold out for long . |
| 16 | And with his wife gone out for long enough with one of her admirers … |
| 17 | " Well , the man 's gone by and Cowslip and I thought the flayrah ought not to lie about for long . |
| 18 | There 's too much quality at the club for us to stay down for long . |
| 19 | Yet it is hardly likely that even if links had been made a ramshackle group of peasant armies using antiquated military techniques could have stood out for long against the Red Army . |